Best music apps and services to download in 2012

Music apps for Android and iPhone to pump up the jam...

Discovr Music

Discovr Music trawls through 15 million songs to find new fave bands. You can read bios, reviews and tweets by and about them, and share it with friends. oh, and you can actually “buy” their music, too, if that’s still your “bag”, granddad.

Figure

Figure handheld genius from electronic production maestros propeller-heads, Figure makes it easy to create beats and riffs, using a Korg Kaoss pad-style touch interface. literally idiot-proof, with some great sounds.

Last.FM

Last.FM as well as a pandora-style personalised radio service this lets you search for gigs based on your listening choices. But, most importantly of all, it logs every tune you play so you can see what you listen to the most.

Pocket Hipster

Pocket Hipster this fun app features animations of hip young people who live in an ironic state. they scan your tunes, recommend what you should be listening to and “give advice” or, to put it more plainly, take the piss out of your music. nice.

ShareMyPlaylists

ShareMyPlaylists.com is a simple little service for Spotify users that lets you create and share playlists. Simple. Any style, niche or artist goes, and it’s a friendly community with a delightful lack of chuntering arseholes.

Price: Free |Platform: Spotify | Best for: Sharing

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Snowtape 2.0

This lets you listen to any of over 3,000 radio stations, schedule recordings of favourite shows and, er, record the music, get artwork and export it to itunes. Worried that last bit may be illegal? turn to p69 and get really worried…

Price: $33 |Platform: OS X | Best for: Radio lovers

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TuneWiki

TuneWiki users can use social media to convey their sentiments with song lyrics, like a modern take on dedicating a song on the radio. there’s three million of the buggers to choose from, too.

Spotify

A revamp that was definitely needed, the new Spotify app is now much less cluttered and sports a new user interface which compliments the new surroundings. On top of the visual makeover, the app has been enhanced to run faster with high resolution album artwork that look at home on 720p screens.